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BAM is considering a purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) project on a long-idle riverside site at Sullivan’s Quay in Cork, following the expiration of previous mixed-use hotel and office planning permissions that stalled after the financial crash and planning breaches.

Student Urban Living Ilderton has applied to Southwark Council to replace a car wash on Old Kent Road with a 19-storey tower containing 241 student flats, an increase from a previously approved 15-storey, 168-flat scheme.

The University of Glasgow has secured a £180 million partnership with Plenary Group, Royal London Asset Management, and Arlington Collegiate UK to fund four initial projects in its long-term campus development, including new student housing and two innovation hubs.

A joint venture between LV Collective and Harrison Street Asset Management is developing Rambler, a 247-unit, 862-bed student housing community in Blacksburg, Va. Kennedy Wilson provided construction financing for the project. The property is set to come online in 2028, in time for the academic year.

Prop.com acquired a 315-unit former student dormitory in Trier for €12.75 million, marking its first investment in Germany and signaling a strategic focus on undervalued assets in key European university towns, with further acquisitions planned in Cologne and Munich.

BCDC is partnering with 908 Group on Chapter House FSU, a 511-bed, Class A student housing development located in the College Town submarket adjacent to Florida State University.

Galway City Council initially recommended refusal of the seven-storey, 240-bed student accommodation project at Westside in 2022, but An Bord Pleanala subsequently approved the development.

Centurion Accommodation REIT (CAREIT) has completed the acquisition of EPIISOD Macquarie Park, a newly developed 732-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) asset in Sydney, Australia.

Leeds City Council has approved plans for a 14-storey purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) development at Joseph's Well, a historic former clothing factory site, following an application submitted by developer J Pullan & Sons in late 2023.

Bathford Partners has submitted plans to convert Grosvenor House, a former engine shed turned office building in Bath’s The Square, into cluster flats offering up to 103 student bedrooms, targeting second and third-year students with accessible rooms and car-free provisions.